Miniature walnut chair

Got my camera back and took some pictures of the chair that so many of you helped me out with.

I learned a lot in this exercise. Namely, that I hope to never have to cut tiny triangles with weird angles and bevels ever again! But I’m pretty happy with the way it finally turned out.

It would be neat to see this as an actual chair, but it would need some serious reinforcing. At this size, figuring out a way to clamp it was a big problem, solved by super glue. It allowed me to put a few drops on each bevel and hold it together with my hands for 30 seconds. First time I have ever used it on wood. It makes me nervous though: I am certain it would bust apart if I dropped it.

Good job! It looks really nice. I love making models. I use super glue when I’m making models, I also use accelerator which helps out a lot with holding time. The accelerator cuts it down to about a 2 second hold.

Steve, if you’ve got the lumber consider this a standing invitation to come up to Petaluma and we’ll see if Domino joints would make one of these strong enough in full-size to use. Looking at the angles on it, I actually think it’d be pretty stable as long as all 3 legs were on the ground. Even rocking back on it looks like most of the force would be reasonable, it’s just rocking forward on that front leg that’d muck it up.

Looks good! And now I’m trying to avoid the temptation to try building the full-sized one just to see if it’d hold up…